To Fix Peer Review, Break It into Stages
All data should get checked, but not every article needs an expert.
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Space and Technology Were Big Winners at China's 20th Party Congress
China's top leadership changes reflect the prioritization of space, science, and technology.
Stop Congratulating Colleagues for Publishing in High-Impact Factor Journals
Stop Congratulating Colleagues for Publishing in High-Impact Factor Journals
The current scholarly publishing system is detrimental to the pursuit of knowledge and needs a radical shift. There have already been many attempts and partial successes to drive a new shift in scholarly publishing. Many of them should be further developed and generalised.
Ecologists Should Create Space for a Wide Range of Expertise
Indigenous communities' knowledge and approaches enrich studies.
Ukraine's Research and Innovation Community Eyes a Better Future
Ukrainian researchers are planning for a brighter future for their country, despite ongoing bombing and electricity shortages. A delegation from Ukraine's research community, led by first deputy minister for education and science, Andrii Vitrenko, came to Brussels last week for the first joint meeting on research and innovation with the European Commission.
Aerosols Must Be Included in Climate Risk Assessments
Estimates of impending risk ignore a big player in regional change and climate extremes.
Twitter Is Not Rocket Science, It's Harder
Elon Musk wants to run Twitter like SpaceX. But human behavior will make it much more difficult
Are We Entering The Golden Age Of Climate Modeling?
Thanks to the advent of exascale computing, local climate forecasts may soon be a reality. And they're not just for scientists anymore.
Arctic Researchers Forced to Modify Projects Amid Geopolitical Tensions with Russia
Arctic Researchers Forced to Modify Projects Amid Geopolitical Tensions with Russia
Arctic scientists are scrambling to modify projects that had involved Russian researchers as the war in Ukraine wears on, leaving questions about whether a data gap from such a key partner might be harmful to the ongoing body of scientific knowledge in the region.
COVID-19: The Lessons That Science Forgot
Based on a survey of over 3000 researchers worldwide, Economist Impact identified important actions that should be considered if mistakes are not to be repeated during future health emergencies.
Science Spared from UK Budget Cuts Amid Economic Turmoil
Researchers relieved by decision to reaffirm previous spending commitments.
Social Media Enables People-centric Climate Action in the Hard-to-decarbonise Building Sector
Social Media Enables People-centric Climate Action in the Hard-to-decarbonise Building Sector
A CERN Model for Studying the Information Environment
CERN has been a model for how to support large-scale research collaboration. Given the challenges facing democracy today related to the information environment, a similar level of effort is required for research on the information environment.
Vaccine Shown to Prolong Life of Patients with Aggressive Brain Cancer
Trial results suggest people with newly diagnosed glioblastoma could potentially be given extra years of life
Large-scale Behavioural Data Are Key to Climate Policy
Applying behavioural science can support system-level change for climate protection. Behavioural scientists should provide reliable large-scale data and governments should secure infrastructure for data collection and the implementation of evidence.
EU Agrees €12.4B Budget for Horizon Europe in 2023
EU policymakers have reached a deal on the budget for next year, and with the focus squarely on tackling the fallout from the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis, research and innovation do not feature at the top of the policy priorities.
Enriching Research Quality: A Proposition for Stakeholder Heterogeneity
Enriching Research Quality: A Proposition for Stakeholder Heterogeneity
Dominant approaches to research quality rest on the assumption that academic peers are the only relevant stakeholders in its assessment. In contrast, impact assessment frameworks recognize a large and heterogeneous set of actors as stakeholders.
Farming Feeds the World. We Desperately Need to Know How to Do It Better
Farming Feeds the World. We Desperately Need to Know How to Do It Better
Interventions designed to improve agricultural practices often lack a solid evidence base. A new initiative could change that.
From Anti-Government to Anti-Science: Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Science
From Anti-Government to Anti-Science: Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Science
Empirical data do not support the conclusion of a crisis of public trust in science. They do support the conclusion of a crisis of conservative trust in science: polls show that American attitudes toward science are highly polarized along political lines. In this essay, we argue that conservative hostility toward science is rooted in conservative hostility toward government regulation of the marketplace, which has morphed in recent decades into conservative hostility to government, tout court. This distrust was cultivated by conservative business leaders for nearly a century, but took strong hold during the Reagan administration, largely in response to scientific evidence of environmental crises that invited governmental response. Thus, science-particularly environmental and public health science-became the target of conservative anti-regulatory attitudes. We argue that contemporary distrust of science is mostly collateral damage, a spillover from carefully orchestrated conservative distrust of government.
The UK Faces Exclusion from High-level Horizon Calls in Quantum
The EU moved to exclude the UK from Horizon Europe calls on sensitive quantum projects in October due to doubts over the country's willingness to provide EU researchers with reciprocal access to UK programmes and to comply with intellectual property rules. The move reverses the EU's previous decision to accept UK participation in more mature quantum projects with high 'technology readiness levels'.
Who Owns the Moon?
Nations agree that no one should own territories in space, but legal debates about owning and selling materials extracted from the moon, planets and asteroids are quickly becoming points of tension
Why Conflict Parties Cease Fighting
The path to peace usually leads through a ceasefire. In an international project, ETH Zurich researchers have shown the conditions under which parties to civil wars are willing to stop fighting – and why they decide to do so.
Research Spending Could Be Lone Bright Spot for U.S. Science After Election Sets Up Divided Government
Research Spending Could Be Lone Bright Spot for U.S. Science After Election Sets Up Divided Government
Likely Republican control of the House presages fiery hearings attacking Biden, but also gridlock
The Big Idea: We Need to Reverse Climate Change, Not Just Stop It
Taking carbon out of the atmosphere will become increasingly important.
There’s one big subject our leaders at Cop27 won’t touch: livestock farming
It’s on course to guzzle half the world’s carbon budget, so why are governments so afraid to discuss it?
Writers Envision the Next 75 Years of Science Policy
"The Next 75 Years of Science Policy," a collection of essays presents a wide range of visions for how science might serve society in the coming years.
UK-Swiss Science Deal As Both Barred from EU Scheme
Political tensions mean both nations have been shut out of the EU's prestigious Horizon programme.
Australia to update science frameworks in renewed commitment to evidence-based policymaking
Australia to update science frameworks in renewed commitment to evidence-based policymaking
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